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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the demure firebrand who in her 80s became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
The court, in a statement, said Ginsburg died at her home in Washington surrounded by family. She was 87.
"Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice."
Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s, Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her, and it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday September 20 2020, @05:31PM
The Constitution of the United States of America was designed to have checks and balances. Each of the three branches -- Judicial, Legislative, and Executive -- each had been assigned certain powers and responsibilities designed so that no one branch could prevail over the others. What happened?
Simple: instead of being some kind of perfect, holy document as many Americans have been taught to believe, it's just not. It's a highly flawed system of government that really doesn't work well in practice. It was a good first try (well, 2nd try actually) back in 1787, compared to most other countries in the world which still had monarchies at that time. But 232 years later, it's been shown by other countries which do democracy better to be as buggy and broken as Windows Me.
If you ask me, the US should simply scrap the Constitution altogether and adopt a system of government similar to Germany's: a federal system but with states having much less power, and a national government based on a parliamentary system. There's a reason Germany and Japan did not adopt the US system of government after WWII when they were reforming their governments under Allied control.